23 Top poetry books like Even the Saints Audition (Button Poetry) by Raych Jackson

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Even the Saints Audition (Button Poetry)

By: Raych Jackson

3.96

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Even The Saints Audition: A book of poems exploring the relationship between blackness, shame, and …

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1. Nana, Vol. 5

By: Ai Yazawa

4.53

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

A chance meeting on a train to Tokyo sends two girls named Nana on a collision course with destiny!… read more

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2. Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

By: Mary Oliver

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Within these pages Mary Oliver collects twenty-six of her poems about the birds that have been such… read more

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3. Counting Descent

By: Clint Smith

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to com… read more

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4. Depression & Other Magic Tricks

By: Sabrina Benaim

4.27

Format: 359 pages,

Depression & Other Magic Tricksis the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performa… read more

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5. Adultolescence

By: Gabbie Hanna

4.00

Format: None pages,

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6. Calling a Wolf a Wolf

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more

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7. Nana, Vol. 3 (Nana, #3)

By: Ai Yazawa

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

This is the story of two 20-year old women who share the same name. Even though they come from comp… read more

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8. Nana, Vol. 2 (Nana, #2)

By: Ai Yazawa

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

This is the story of two 20-year old women who share the same name. Even though they come from comp… read more

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9. Nana, Vol. 4 (Nana, #4)

By: Ai Yazawa

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

This is the story of two 20-year old women who share the same name. Even though they come from comp… read more

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10. New American Best Friend

By: Olivia Gatwood

4.24

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

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11. Swimming Lessons: Poems

By: Lili Reinhart

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The debut collection of poetry from Lili Reinhart, the actress and outspoken advocate for mental he… read more

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"I think you might be the death of me. And its as if I'm running at full speed towards my grave."

-Lili Reinhart, Swimming Lessons: Poems

"This is how I know I love you so much. Whenever I see something beautiful, I want you to see it, too."

-Lili Reinhart, Swimming Lessons: Poems

"I stopped taking photos of sunsets a long time ago. I can never capture its colours. The same goes for you."

-Lili Reinhart, Swimming Lessons: Poems

"Život nije savršena pozornica. Naposljetku ćeš čeznuti za trenutcima koji su ti bili pred nosom jer nisi u stanju vidjeti da nešto obično može biti iznimno."

-Lili Reinhart, Swimming Lessons: Poems

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12. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

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13. Are You Listening?

By: Tillie Walden

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Bea is on the run. And then, she runs into Lou. This chance encounter sends them on a journey th… read more

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"Everyone everything has potential for magic. You just gotta be standing somewhere in the world and in the body that lets you see it."

-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?

"Mom. It's too hot out. Can't we skip today? We could walk twice tomorrow...' 'We have to, Lou. We have to move every day, even when we don't want to."

-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?

"When something horrible happens, or something amazing...really, anything that's big, it makes you feel like mountains could shatter, or the sky could disappear...you know what I'm talking about? Well…"

-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?

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14. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

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"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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15. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

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"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

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16. The Carrying

By: Ada Limon

4.40

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more

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"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

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17. Helium (Button Poetry)

By: Rudy Francisco

4.29

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

2018 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist Helium is the debut poetry collection by … read more

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"The word “repurpose"

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

"I held you the way a boat holds water."

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

"Loving you was the last thing I felt really good at."

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

"you wouldn't let me love both of us at the same time"

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

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18. The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)

By: Amanda Lovelace

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and now—indestructible. These moving, … read more

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" -call us alexandria "

-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)

"Confiança não é egocentrismo"

-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)

"Fuck the idea of staying calm."

-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)

"i am the girl with the arsonist heart"

-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)

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19. Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

By: Andrea Gibson

4.43

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Andrea Gibson's latest collection, they continue their artful and nuanced looks at gender, roman… read more

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"There will be music for you one day."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"My "yes" never fit into the "no" of this world."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"Come tender as the trees forgiving the books for asking to be made."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"It isn't that you don't like boys. It's that you only like boys you want to be"

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

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20. My Father's Eyes, My Mother's Rage

By: Rose Brik

4.26

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

"My Father's Eyes, My Mother's Rage" is the raw and emotionally charged debut poetry collection by … read more

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"when your mother is your first love, you can search to the ends of the earth and never find any love comparable. when your mother is your first heartbreak, no love will ever fill the void of feeling …"

-Rose Brik, My Father's Eyes, My Mother's Rage

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21. Shout

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

4.26

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

A searing poetic memoir and call to action from the bestselling and award-winning author of Speak, … read more

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"I could only fix myself"

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout

"Eve ate the apple because Adam was afraid"

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout

"When we were girls we rode horses disguised as bicycles"

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout

"when I wasn't stoned the only thing that helped me breathe was a book"

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout

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22. You Better Be Lightning

By: Andrea Gibson

4.63

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s… read more

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"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

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23. Swallowtail (Button Poetry)

By: Brenna Twohy

4.33

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Swallowtail: A deep dive into the dissection of popular culture, and how the brightness and horrors… read more

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"Peach pits are poisonous. This is not a mistake. Girlhood is growing fruit around cyanide. It will never be your for swallowing."

-Brenna Twohy, Swallowtail (Button Poetry)

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24. Life of the Party

By: Olivia Gatwood

4.19

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A dazzling debut collection of raw and explosive poems about growing up in a sexist, sensationalize… read more

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"Some things are more a feeling than they are a memory."

-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party

"The truth is: It is a privilege to have your body looked for."

-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party

"You must know the width of the knife and how it ruined you, name the organs it kissed."

-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party

"I want to know what it means to survive something. does it just mean I get to keep my body?"

-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party

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25. Dead Dad Jokes (Button Poetry)

By: Ollie Schminkey

4.26

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Dead Dad Jokes is an unflinching take on family, loss and trauma. There is nothing quiet about Schm… read more

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"when i spell grief, i can never remember if the i or e comes first, so i spend each day autocorrecting my greif, my grief, greif, grief, greif, until i can finally figure out what the fuck it is i’m …"

-Ollie Schminkey, Dead Dad Jokes (Button Poetry)

"i see an old man using a walker on the sidewalk, and my stomach aches for those 30 years my dad never got. if i die at the same age as my dad, my life is almost half up. i imagine him sitting at a pa…"

-Ollie Schminkey, Dead Dad Jokes (Button Poetry)

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26. Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco

By: K. Iver

4.59

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco, selected by Tyehimba Jess for the 2022 Ballard Spahr P… read more

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27. Born in a Second Language

By: Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie

4.04

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Born in a Second Language troubles the spectrum between silence (or the limitations of the mouth) a… read more

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28. SINK (Button Poetry)

By: Desireé Dallagiacomo

4.27

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Desireé Dallagiacomo's debut book grapples with the intersections of family and mental health. Sink… read more

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29. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

By: Prentis Hemphill

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more

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30. Even the Saints Audition (Button Poetry)

By: Raych Jackson

3.96

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Even The Saints Audition: A book of poems exploring the relationship between blackness, shame, and … read more

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31. The Only Worlds We Know (Button Poetry)

By: Michael Lee

4.34

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Michael Lee's The Only Worlds We Know is a staggering debut that grapples with sobriety and surviva… read more

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